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mardi 6 juin 2017

“Not an album of usual leftovers, Sessions is filled of these cosmic beats and of these French School savours unique to this so charmingly style of the 70's”

1 Session #1 7:542 Session #2 6:333 Session #3 16:344 Session #4 7:275 Session #5 15:096 Session #6 6:35MoonSatellite Music (CD 60:14) ***½(Vintage French School cosmic rock)Those who read my chronicles for a long time know at which point I am very timorous regarding an album which aims to be a pack of leftovers that an artist composed in a flash in various sessions. The purpose wants that can interest the fans! For me, I perceive rather a spirit of mercantilism in this. So my dear friend Lone Wolf decided that this “Sessions”, an album of titles scattered during sessions which go back up before his studio’s old configuration, had an artistic value which would please his numerous fans. And, to the opposite, there are also remains which should have found themselves in the open air. Like this “Sessions”, a delicious opus of leftovers which respects in every aspect all of these charms of the France School cosmic EM that MoonSatellite puts in my ears since the delightful Sequenzer - Volume 1, released in 2007. And even if the 6 parts are linked in a long sound river, and its turbulences as its moments of tranquility, of more than one hour, MoonSatellite signifies us that there is no link between them and that the 6 sessions of “Sessions” represent six different vibes which go according to the humors of my dear Lone Wolf.Sound waves badly dressed, samplings of crumbled voices and noises of subway as well as a beautiful pallet of electronic effects open "Session #1". The signature of MoonSatellite is recognizable between one thousand… except that of Jean Michel Jarre! A carousel of sequences, with crystalline tones, glitters with the grace of an astral ballerina under a shower of meteorites, bringing this ambient movement towards a line of steady bass that our ears mingle with that of Jarre in Les Chants Magnétiques IV. A ghost melody hides behind this steady rhythm, titillating our ears starving for these electronic melodies so French and so romantic. She will stay however in background, letting all the charms of the initial chant of the sequences to meet a wall of Elvish voices around the 5th minute. Voices which bring back "Session #1" to its origins. "Session #2" follows with an introduction blown of emotion. Dense layers and seraphic voices get entangled in a sound veil which releases orchestral perfumes while a synth throws harmonies which cry like a concert of forsaken souls. A discreet movement of sequences waddles in this decoration rich in intensity. And this synth which always cries! Another movement of the sequencer escapes in half-way, drawing a very melodic spheroidal structure which hangs onto a heavy bass line. And there, here is this melody so expected. She is on the other hand nostalgic and turns up with this movement of the sequencer, such as in the nice time of Space Art, beneath the caresses of a synth which abounds in beautiful analog tones. It's here that my ears started to get nail in this jam of MoonSatellite's leftovers. No regrets from this moment!"Session #3" leads us towards a long introduction loaded of cosmic effects and orchestrations where the synth cries as much as he throws some harmonic SOS. The layers of ambiences spread some very nice panoramas of solitude where a sensitive soul can easily imagine to be on the ice floes of Mare Serenitatis and to contemplate the sparkling of the stars which gleam like tears through eyelids bruised by an inconsolable sorrow. And it's the waltz! A very beautiful and slow orchestral movement settles down around the 4th minute. And, some2 minutes farther, it is quite slowly uprooted by a sequence of rhythm which drags out this long "Session #3" out of its cocoon of serenity. The rhythm is pulsating. Planted on a play of two sequences with simultaneous jumps, it takes root with a multitude of elements which enrich the charms. Oscillating line, jingles of percussions, electronic percussions and these old beat-box percussions of the Kraftwerk years arm this rhythm of elegances and electronic refinements which stimulate so much the desire to hang on to it as the hearing delight. Layers and splendid aerial solos add the final touch to an evolutionary structure which hooks as much to its cocoon of contemplation as its structure of cosmic rhythm. A very beautiful and long title, as I like them! "Session #5" is a little in the same vein while offering a structure of rhythmic bass which reminds me that of P'Cock in House in the Storm, but with a tonal wealth as noble as the mysteries of the cosmos. "Session #4" proposes an opening full of Gregorian chants before diving into a phase of rhythm full of nuances, as much in the tones as in the rhythmic embryo. Like a decorator, Lone Wolf adds constantly elements which embellish this rhythmic fetus which becomes as sober as a dance for puppeteers resting their fingers with basic movements. "Session #6" ends “Sessions”, with an entanglement of synth layers in mode; melancholic ambiences. At the same time cosmic, symphonic and cinematographic the layers filled of wandering voices are poignant of emotion and transport easily the listener towards a memory repressed, towards landscapes of serenity, so concluding an album that MoonSatellite finally did well to get out from his sessions of solitude.Sylvain Lupari (June 6th, 2017)synth&sequences.comYou will find this album on the MoonSatellite web shop here

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My name is Sylvain Lupari from Joliette in Quebec (Canada). I’m known as Phaedream all over the Internet since the beginning of 2000 where I started to write reviews. In 2005, I joined the French Webzine Guts of Darkness and on August 2010 I created a Blog, Synth & Sequences, which has reached the point of 1 000,000 visitors on February 2017 where I also wrote my 1354th review. In French and in English, I wrote more than reviews of EM albums.
This Blog is a huge success and reference about the music which sets my mind free over the years. Too many chronicles, so I have to split this Blog in several sections. Robert Schroeder is the first to welcome my thoughts on Webpress.
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Here you will find informations about his career and discography and latest news as well as deep reviews about his music, his albums.
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